Name Oriental Moment Medium Quilted fibre and Mixed Media Assemblage Description This is one of a series entitled ‘Story Pictures’ prepared for a solo exhibition in 2008.  In this series I combined my background in quilt art with my love of texture.  I am often inspired by the ‘stuff’ I collect or ‘find’.  The challenge is to find items in proportion to the size of the finished piece and in this...

  Name Tangled Garden Revisited Medium Quilt / Fibre Art Description (from proposal to our first show) ‘Frayed Edges’ is a community of artists who share a passion for creating with fibre which I helped to establish.  These contemporary artists live within a 100 km radius of Almonte, ON and meet monthly to share new ideas and techniques, to encourage and support each other and to seek opportunities to exhibit their work as a group.  The...

    Name Memory Quilt for Dave and Lisa’s Wedding Medium Quilt Art Description This memory quilt was created as a surprise for my son and his wife on their wedding day. It was hung by members of the wedding party so that it would be at the reception when they returned from their picture session and gave the guests, while they were waiting for the reception program to begin, a glimpse into the couple’s joint history.  Each...

I’m finally over my creative block – my fear of beginning .  I’ve got two potential exhibition pieces planned and deadlines looming and I’ve been finding all sorts of reasons to avoid actually starting! The project I’m focusing on first is based on the photo above taken in an ancient forest in BC in 2011.  It will involve a lot of different techniques and was started in the fall when I experimented with paper...

Today was a retreat day – a day of doing things that really don’t require a lot of thought.  My sister arrived on January 8 and my routines immediately went for naught!  Blog time, journal time, ‘me’ time disappeared into a daily round of trying to find new things to do in very cold and often stormy weather.  We did manage a trip to Lake Louise for lunch on the only sunny day!  She has now returned home, so life is...

It looks like weekend blogs may be hit or miss!  Especially when it is granddaughter visit time!  This weekend was especially busy as I am preparing for the arrival of my sister and that means moving my dining table ‘office’ to ‘neater’ locations, clearing my ‘studio’ so that it can be a studio and not just a storeroom, and generally putting Christmas behind me. Since New Year’s, I’ve given...

One of the ‘want to do’s’ that has been on my list for some time is exploration of Zen Tangles.  So I decided to combine it with my new attempt at journaling this year.  I’m using the library found at tangles.com to help me get started. As I mentioned yesterday, I have prepared my own tangle tiles from 110 lb card stock that I had on hand.  Unlike the journaling that I plan to do daily, I am not limiting myself to one...

I’ve never spent much time with paper-based arts but obviously have had a hankering to do so – I’ve got the supplies on hand!  I’ve decided to allocate a bit of time this year to exploring journals and book-making and have spent the last couple of days ‘playing’.  If I hadn’t, I’d still be procrastinating and who knows when I would get started! Over the past two days I’ve introduced my mini...

In the past I’ve been unsuccessful in remaining faithful to my journaling efforts.  I did manage one NaNo challenge!  Part of the problem arises when I ‘get lost’ in the journal pages and spent too much time doing them and part arises from frustration with bound journal pages.  So I’m trying a new approach. I also want to explore ‘tangles’ this year and have prepared to do so by making my own tangle...

Happy New Year everyone! I was going to wait until tomorrow to do a post but thought better of it.  I need to put down a marker – a marker for a new beginning, a new direction, a new focus. It’s been a pleasant start to the New Year.  A leisurely breakfast, some work on a major fiber art piece neglected for a couple of years because it is too large for my work area in the RV, preparation for some journal work this year, topped off...